Word: gibraltarâ
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...inaugurating the new port at Barcelona, which cost more than 100,000,000 pesetas ($19,300,000), King Alfonso urged the study of a tube to Africa under the Strait of Gibraltar??? a distance of about twelve miles...
...Panther to Agadir and another international crisis was occasioned; 1912 France and Spain came to an agreement on Tangier; until 1914 a permanent settlement of the Tangier question was sought without success; immediately after the War the question was revived?Great Britain could not countenance any one Power opposite Gibraltar??? France favored the return of the zone to the Sultan whom she controlled?Spain wanted the zone to facilitate communication with her Moroccan Protectorate; many abortive conferences were held during the years...
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